Why is the site suggestion form always down?

I'm a web designer based in Ottawa Canada and I've been trying to register a number of sites with the DMOZ for a few months now. It seems that every time I attempt to suggest the URLs the form is down for maintenance.. why is this? It seems to be more than just regularly scheduled maintenance, this has been the case about 5 or 6 times over the last two months...?

'Always' is a pretty strong word and a less than accurate one in this case. ODP has been officially down for maintenance three times in the last few weeks as back end enhancements are rolled out. Did you not notice the announcement or believe the message that you saw?

Back in a bit!

From August 16 through 19 2010, Suggest/Submit a Site (URL), Update a Site (URL), Request Reinstatement, Staff Feedback Form and Become an Editor for DMOZ will be offline while we get ready to launch some behind the scenes improvements to DMOZ. Visit the DMOZ Public Forums to talk about DMOZ with the editor community.

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The work is scheduled to be completed by Thursday 19th August 04:00 EST.

Thank you for your patience.